At 04:44 PM 10/19/00 -0700, you wrote:
>
> I don't know what the contemporary take on it is, or even to what extent it
> can be considered Marxist, but when I was an undergrad eons ago, I read
> Industrial Slavery in the Old South, 1790-1861: A Study in Political Economy
> by Robin Starobin. It was quite an eye-opener to me at the time.
Yeah, I noticed this today in the Barnard Library. It had two things going for
it, the Starobin name which I assumed indicated that the author was the son or
daughter of Joseph Starobin, the CP'er who left the party and wrote for
American Socialist for awhile. The other thing was the title which promised to
be what I was looking for at first blush. The only drawback--and I'll have to
take a second look--is that it seemed to be focused on actual manufacturing
such as tobacco mills using slavery as opposed to picking cotton on
plantations. I have a sneaky suspicion, however, that the book I am looking
for
has never been written. It might be categorized as a Marxist/dependency theory
study of American slavery. I'll probably post the query on the World Systems
mailing list although they give me the heebie-jeebies over there.
Louis Proyect
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